Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Lawyers

• Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doctors, Law Students, Lawyer

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, God, Honesty

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Dec. 1733

• Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Forgiveness, Government, Law

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1756

• A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Cat, Law

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Courier Corporation

• Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Law, Attorney

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

• Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, Eggs, Perfection

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1734

• Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Strong, Science

  Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1737

• Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doctors, Lawyer, Pot

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.277, Oxford University Press, USA

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